“He’s an electric player,” Hopkins junior quarterback Ryan Pierce said of Collings. “When we need a big play, we put the ball in his hands.”

Collings, Pierce and Wyatt Stegeman each scored twice and Dylan Wilson scored once as the Vikings improved to 3-1 overall and 2-0 in the OK Silver. NorthPointe (3-1, 1-1) lost its first game of the season.

NorthPointe got on the scoreboard first on a 5-yard run by quarterback Preston Huckaby, but it was all Hopkins after that. The Vikings led 24-6 at halftime and essentially put the game away when Collings ran a kickoff back 94 yards for his second touchdown of the game.

“I try to be electric and run the ball on the outside,” said Collings, who also scored on a 31-yard touchdown in the second quarter. “When we (the running backs) all do our jobs, we can be dangerous.”

Hopkins ran the ball 56 times for 276 yards for an average of 4.9 yards per carry.

“It’s a very difficult offense to defend,” NorthPointe coach Tim Swore said. “You’ve got to fill every gap. Our kids (on defense) were looking in the backfield and if you go the wrong way, well, we fell for it.”

NorthPointe had a tough time getting its offense going. It didn’t help that they had to put Huckaby, normally a wide receiver, in at quarterback when their first two options were injured in back-to-back weeks.

“Preston is a playmaker and a good football player,” Swore said of the junior. “I asked Preston to make too many decisions on the field.”